Германия: Меркел се среща с президента на Израел Реувен Ривлин в Берлин

German Chancellor Angela Merkel greeted visiting Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, in Berlin on Tuesday. The president’s visit marks 50 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries and comes just three days after the world commemorated the anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany, and the end of the Second World War in Europe. Rivlin will be treated to a special ceremony by the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra to mark the anniversary. In 1965 the two countries (Germany then as West Germany) established formal relations, two decades after the end of the Second World War. The meeting comes after Rivlin signed a deal to buy four patrol boats for Israel from the German multinational ThyssenKrupp. The €430 million ($480 million) deal is reportedly to protect Israel’s off-shore gas installations in the Mediterranean. Germany is Israel’s largest European trade partner.